iPromt for iphone & itouch

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http://www.handholdadaptive.com/

Now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch!

iPrompts: the portable, customizable, visual prompting tool for those

with special needs.

Our app is designed especially for parents, special educators and

therapists to use with developmentally challenged and language-

impaired individuals, like people with Autism, Down syndrome, Fragile

X syndrome, and apraxia of speech. iPromptsTM also benefits kids who

just need more structure, including kids with Attention Deficit

Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD),

and even typical, pre-verbal toddlers! Read more...

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Question about this item.

How does this item help children with apraxia have better expressive language

skills?

Most children with apraxia have great receptive language or understanding when

you ask a question (like the example of a choice of two items).

It just seems like a lot of money and time spent on programming choices and

conversation into a computer that could be spent with the child in actual

conversation.

Other than increasing the IQ of the programmer (by trying to figure out how the

item works) or increasing the IQof the child (by learningto operate the

equipment), I cannot figure out how this item will benefit my child?

It just seems a lot easier and cheaper to ask the child to make a field choice

of two items presented to him and have him point or gesture and then

simultaneously getting him/her to verbalize as well.

If I am missing something, let me know. It just seems like an expensive toy to

me.